Senate Bill S5263

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S5263 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7525
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§263.17 & 263.18, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S3142, A3544
2017-2018: S1444, A6297
2019-2020: S1324

2013-S5263 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means.

2013-S5263 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S5263 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5263

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 15, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ZELDIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
  allurement of a minor through electronic means

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections  263.17
and 263.18 to read as follows:
S 263.17 ALLUREMENT  OF  A  MINOR THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS IN THE SECOND
           DEGREE.
  ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO KNOWINGLY ENGAGES IN SEXUAL COMMUNICATION  FOR  THE
PURPOSE, IN WHOLE OR SUBSTANTIAL PART, OF HIS OR HER OWN SEXUAL GRATIFI-
CATION,  INCLUDING TEXT MESSAGES OR PICTURES, WITH AN INDIVIDUAL WHOM HE
OR SHE KNOWS TO BE A MINOR, THROUGH ANY ELECTRONIC MEANS SHALL BE GUILTY
OF THE CRIME OF ALLUREMENT OF A MINOR THROUGH  ELECTRONIC  MEANS.    THE
CRIME  OF ALLUREMENT OF A MINOR THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS SHALL NOT APPLY
TO COMMUNICATIONS SENT FROM ONE MINOR TO ANOTHER, TO COMMUNICATIONS SENT
BY A PERSON AGE TWENTY-ONE OR UNDER TO A PERSON AGE SEVENTEEN OR  OLDER,
NOR TO COMMUNICATIONS FROM A PERSON AGE EIGHTEEN TO A PERSON AGE FIFTEEN
OR OVER.
  ALLUREMENT OF A MINOR THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS
A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
S 263.18 ALLUREMENT  OF  A  MINOR  THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS IN THE FIRST
           DEGREE.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF ALLUREMENT OF A MINOR THROUGH  ELECTRONIC  MEANS
IN  THE FIRST DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS THE CRIME OF ALLUREMENT OF A
MINOR THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS IN THE SECOND DEGREE, AND HAS  PREVIOUSLY
BEEN CONVICTED OF SUCH CRIME WITHIN THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS.
  ALLUREMENT  OF A MINOR THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEANS IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS
A CLASS E FELONY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day   after it  shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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